Tag archieven: The History Press

Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis

Mike O’Connor – The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall

Mike O’Connor The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek met verhalen uit het Engelse graafschap. Op 3 juli 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het boek The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall. Het boek is geschreven door Mike O’Connor.

Mike O’Connor The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall, het boek van Mike O’Connor, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Mike O'Connor The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall

The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall

  • Auteur: Mike O’Connor (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: boek met verhalen over Cornwall
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Reeks: The Little History
  • Verschijnt: 3 juli 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 12,99 / £ 6,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over verhalen vertellen in Cornwall

Cornwall’s storytelling tradition stretches back a thousand years. Before TV and radio, stories were told among the flickering shadows at the fireside. They whiled away the travellers’ miles, long hours in the fields, and days at sea. They gladdened brief moments of relaxation for miners and bal-maidens. Travelling storytellers wandered from village to village swapping words for supper, and a rich local dialect brought the tales to life. Classic Cornish tales such as the Mermaid of Zennor and Jan Tregeagle are wonderfully entertaining, and collectively tell us much about Cornwall, its people, and its history.

Join accomplished storyteller, scholar and writer Mike O’Connor as he explores the ‘when, where, and why’ of Cornish folk tales and celebrates the rich traditions and cultural legacy of hwedhlow.

Mike O’Connor is a powerful and engaging storyteller who performs at many events across the country. An important researcher into Cornish music and folklore, he has been awarded the OBE and made a bard of the Gorsedh of Kernow.

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Dieren, Dierenboeken, Memoir

Paul Heiney – One Man and His Hog

Paul Heiney One Man and His Hog review, recensie en informatie boek en memoir met het verhaal van een varken genaamd Alice. Op 30 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het nieuwe boek van Paul Heiney de Engelse schrijver, journalist en radiomaker.

Paul Heiney One Man and His Hog review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van One Man and His Hog, The Story of a Pig Called Alice, geschreven door Paul Heiney, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Paul Heiney One Man and His Hog

One Man and His Hog

The Story of a Pig Called Alice

  • Auteur: Paul Heiney (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: memoir, dierenboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 30 oktober 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst memoir en boek van Paul Heiney over zijn varken

‘To call Alice “just another pig” would be the gravest insult.’

Alice the Large Black pig was Paul Heiney’s best friend, his confidante and his therapist. This is the story of their tempestuous relationship with all its ups-and-downs, from her arrival as a ‘large, black and expensive’ Christmas present for his wife to her last days as the matriarch of his traditional farm.

In One Man and His Hog, Heiney walks us through why lop-eared pigs are the best to raise (they can’t see you coming), how to escape a sow that’s decided you’re her next mate (throw a bucket and run), and how, actually, pigs might have just got this whole ‘life’ situation sorted out.

Paul Heiney is a writer, broadcaster and journalist. Most recently he has been the presenter of ITV’s Countrywise, and BBC’s Watchdog. He has been an organic farmer, working his land with heavy horses, this experience forming the basis of his long-running column in The Times. He is also the author of several best-selling books, including Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?

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Engelse geschiedenis, Geschiedenisboeken, Schotland, Schotse schrijver

Nick Aitchison – Scotland’s Stone of Destiny

Nick Aitchison Scotland’s Stone of Destiny review, recensie en informatie boek over de steen waarop van de 9e tot de 13e eeuw alle Schotse koningen werden gekroond. Op 27 november 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het boek van Nick Aitchinson over het beroemdste symbool van zowel de Schotse nationaliteit als de Britse monarchie, Stone of Destiny ook wel Stone of Scone genoemd. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Nick Aitchison Scotland’s Stone of Destiny review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Scotland’s Stone of Destiny, het boek van de Schotse historicus Nick Aitchison, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Nick Aitchison Scotland's Stone of Destiny

Scotland’s Stone of Destiny

  • Auteur: Nick Aitchison (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: Schotse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 27 november 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van The Stone of Destiny

Scotland’s ‘Stone of Destiny’ is the most famous symbol of both Scottish nationhood and the British monarchy.

Nick Aitchison has produced the first fully researched and illustrated study of its history, mythology and cultural significance. Having first traced the origin, evolution and function of myths surrounding the Stone and the ancient prophecy that gives the Stone its name, he examines the stone itself and for the first time reveals the Stone’s original function and the origins of its symbolic sanctity.

The Stone’s historic contexts and its role in royal inauguration and coronation rituals are also discussed, including an analysis of the rich symbolism surrounding the Stone and its changing nature over time. The book concludes with a discussion of the Stone’s symbolic significance with the creation of the Scottish parliament.

Nick Aitchison took his degree (in Archaeology and Scottish History) at the University of Glasgow, where he also gained his PhD. His research interests focus on kingship and royal and religious centres in early medieval Scotland. His previous publications include Forteviot: a Pictish and Scottish Royal Centre and the critically-acclaimed Macbeth: Man and Myth. Dr Aitchison is currently conducting research on early medieval Scone, its environs and associated royal centres.

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Berlijn, Geschiedenisboeken

Joseph Pearson – The Airlift

Joseph Pearson The Airlift review, recensie en informatie boek over overwinningen, mythen en de blokkade van Berlijn in 1948 en 1949. Op 23 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press, The Airlift, Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade. Het boek is geschreven door de in Canada geboren historicus Joseph Pearson. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Joseph Pearson The Airlift review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van The Airlift, Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade, geschreven door Joseph Pearson, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Joseph Pearson The Airlift

The Airlift

Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade

  • Auteur: Joseph Pearson (Canada)
  • Soort boek: Berlijn boek, geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 23 oktober 2025
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 22,00 / £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de blokkade van Berlijn in 1948 en 1949

Berlin, 1948-9. Airmen who had spent the Second World War dropping bombs on the city now risked their lives dropping chocolate bars; German citizens looked to the skies not with dread and hatred, but with hope and admiration. Through a deeply human lens, this fascinating new book investigates how lasting new battlelines were formed in the war-torn city.

This is not a standard military history; The Airlift uses extensive archives and interviews to interweave everyday characters’ tales into an extraordinary story. They include an American pilot crashing in Soviet territory, a Jewish photographer struggling to reconcile with the Germans, the 17,000 women who built Tegel Airport, Cambridge University actors performing in the ruins for British intelligence, Hollywood star Montgomery Clift filming at Tempelhof airport, and a Berlin girl trying to outrun the boys reaching for chocolate.

By uncovering untapped sources in both German and Anglo-American archives, Dr Pearson gives a unique and textured portrait of a city during the Cold War’s first major conflict through the lives of real individuals. The Berlin Airlift wrote the playbook of the Cold War, and it still influences Western thinking and diplomacy with Russia to this day.

Joseph Pearson was born in Canada, studied at Middlebury College in Vermont and has a doctorate in Modern History from the University of Cambridge. He taught at Columbia University and currently lectures at the Barenboim-Said Akademie and New York University in Berlin. He is the author of My Grandfather’s Knife (The History Press) and Berlin (Reaktion Books), a portrait of the city in which he now lives and works.

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Muziek, Popmuziek

Andrew Cook – Capitol Gains

Andrew Cook Capitol Gains review, recensie en informatie van het boek over het conflict tussen The Beatles en het platenlabel dat hen maakte. Op 23 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het boek Capitol Gains: Exposing the Conflict Between The Beatles and the Record Label that Made Them. Het boek is geschreven door Andrew Cook. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Cook Capitol Gains review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Capitol Gains: Exposing the Conflict Between The Beatles and the Record Label that Made Them, geschreven door Andrew Cook, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Andrew Cook Capitol Gains

Capitol Gains

Exposing the Conflict Between The Beatles and the Record Label that Made Them

  • Auteur: Andrew Cook (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: muziekboek over The Beatles
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 23 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 20,00 / £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over het conflict tussen The Beatles en hun platenlabel

A chance remark on the stairs at Peter Morris Music in London’s Denmark Street, in October 1963, set off a chain reaction that helped Brian Epstein apply some much-needed leverage on America’s Hollywood-based Capitol label. Although February 1963 marked the Beatles’ breakthrough in Britain, by the closing months of that year they still had not conquered America. Their manager Brian Epstein had been fighting what seemed like a losing battle to persuade Capitol to release the band’s records in America. How did that chance encounter eventually force Capitol’s hand?

When the Beatles eventually hit the big time in the US in February 1964, both Epstein and Capitol executives obscured the true story behind it. However, corporate and personal archives now reveal the reality behind this and much more, also lifting the lid on the fact that Capitol viewed the British record industry as being 30 years behind the times, and set out to remix UK master tapes and create distinct US albums. While Capitol’s strategy made the Beatles rich beyond their wildest dreams, Epstein is shown as often struggling to balance Capitol’s commercial decisions against the Beatles’ own demands. This account also explores Capitol’s PR efforts to protect the Beatles image as they were caught up in the whirlwind of worldwide success.

Andrew Cook is an author and TV consultant with a degree in History & Ancient History. He was a programme director of the Hansard Scholars Programme for the University of London. Andrew has written for The Times, Guardian, Independent, BBC History Magazine and History Today.

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Auto's, Autoboek

Giles Chapman – Lost Cars of the 1960s

Giles Chapman Lost Cars of the 1960s review, recensie en informatie boek over vergeten auto’s uit de zestiger jaren. Op 12 november 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het boek van Giles Chapman het boek over een aantal vergeten automodellen uit de jaren 60. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Giles Chapman Lost Cars of the 1960s review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van German Cars of the 1960s, het autoboek van Giles Chapman, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Giles Chapman Lost Cars of the 1960s

Lost Cars of the 1960s

  • Auteur: Giles Chapman (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: autoboek over jaren 60 modellen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 12 november 2025
  • Omvang:
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 19,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek Lost Cars of the 1960s

Sixty diverse cars, sixty fascinating stories, sixty contrasting specifications, just one uniting factor: they’re all forgotten, neglected or misunderstood classics.

What is that car? Think you know it? Take another look; is it really what you remember? The 1960s may be regarded as the cradle of the classic car, but these are the tantalising ones that got away. Giles Chapman has assembled a line-up of contrasting automobiles here, which quickly became obscure. Each of the cars you’ll discover here tells an unusual story, and the endings are often surprising. In this turbulent decade, brave new engine technology was championed and then rejected, design trends suddenly exploded, and car-buyers became unpredictable. The cars in this book sometimes suffered as a result – although some of them were actually just plain odd!

Lost Cars of the 1960s is the final part of a trilogy that includes Lost Cars of the 1940s and ’50s and Lost Cars of the 1970s, recording the intriguing sideshows of motoring history from around the world.

Giles Chapman is an award-winning motoring writer. He has edited and written for numerous car magazines, and contributed to national newspapers. His books include My Dad Had One Of Those, Chapman’s Car Compendium, Cars We Loved in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and 100 Cars Britain Can Be Proud Of. He lives in Kent.

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